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Quotes About Equality

The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.
~ Johnnetta B. Cole
We may be different races and religions but we are all part of the same human family
~ Dalai Lama
You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.
~ Mitch Landrieu
We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation.
~ Barack Obama
I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.
~ Steven Chu
The peoples of the earth are one family.
~ Ruth Benedict
I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.
~ Cindy Sheehan
I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.
~ Toni Morrison
We don't have titles on our business cards. No one really gets any special treatment. No one gets a corner office to put pictures of their family and their dog in.
~ Jay Chiat
I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
~ Theodore Bikel
Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!
~ Cyndi Lauper
It is not only our right as members of the global human family to protest when our brothers and sisters are being treated brutally, but it is also our duty to do whatever we can to hep them.
~ Dalai Lama
Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.
~ Jacques Pepin
My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
~ Pam Grier
No one should be forced to delay health care because politicians have the audacity to presume to know what is best for a woman and her family.
~ Unknown
If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?
~ Mary Astell
I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.
~ Frances Wright
In our family, being powerful means you never, ever apologize for being a woman.
~ Georgette Mosbacher
I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.
~ Sayed Kashua
I want a country where citizens like you and your family are just as welcome as anyone else.
~ Hillary Clinton
Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.
~ Thomas Paine
What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family.
~ John Boorman
I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.
~ John Shelby Spong
If a woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family, huge issue for our economy and our country's well being.
~ Kathleen Turner